Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 1 Introduction

In this first tutorial, Andrew Devis introduces his new series on Adobe Premiere Pro Basics (CS6 & above) with a look at the CS6 user interface (UI) and a comparison with the CS5.5 UI, along with a brief comment on what to look for when capturing your own footage.

Dear Mr. Devis,
First thank you for all the help your videos have helped me for years. i haven't edited in over 5 years and photoshop looks so confusing to me. For some reason every pic i import in from my desktop folder of pics becomes the background layer and i cant import more than 1 per project.

If you are ever not sure what sequence settings to use, import the footage into your project panel and the right click on it and choose 'New Sequence from Clip' and this will give you the best settings for your footage taking into account frame rate, aspect ratio etc.

Dear Mr. Andrew Devis,
I found all your videos to the point and with the best articulation. Thanks for the effort.
Can one buy the whole series ? Then I do not have to go to the net every time.I would like to to use your method for creative a video for my students in medicine. What software are you using for the hotspot in the cursor and the free hand red loops over the area of interest.I tried some free screen shot capture tools and was not impressed.
I am registered with creativecow as agamdavid@yahoo.com. Can I get a reply in my mail if possible please.Thanks. David

Premiere Pro Techniques: 110 Preset & Custom Lumetri LooksPlay VideoIn this tutorial, Andrew Devis goes through a new option that will be coming with the next release of Adobe Premiere Pro called Lumetri Looks - which gives you the option to apply .Look files created in Adobe SpeedGrade directly to your footage in Premiere Pro.
While this option at first glance seems to only offer the ability to apply presets already created, there is also a way in which you can create your own grades in SpeedGrade, save them as .Look files and then apply those custom grades to your footage or to an adjustment layer in Premiere Pro CS_Next.
In this tutorial, Andrew shows the new option and how it may be used with SpeedGrade CS_Next to create, save and apply your own custom looks.

Premiere Pro CS6: 68 Color 21: Blend Modes 2: Lens FlarePlay VideoIn this tutorial, Andrew Devis starts off by showing how to add and change a 'Lens Flare' and then how to use a colored gradient to colorize your footage for added interest. Andrew then goes on to show how to use the 'Cell Pattern' effect as a way to add gentle movement below an image to create more interest - because the eye is drawn to movement.

Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 63 Color 16 Levels EffectPlay VideoIn this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows that there is a levels effect in Premiere Pro which you may have used if you are a Photoshop or After Effects user. However, the levels effect in Premiere Pro can be both hard to find and hard to use, and according to Andrew, should not be your first port of call for brightness & contrast adjustments. That said, Andrew demonstrates how to use the level effect in Premiere Pro as well as showing its short-comings.

Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 65 Color 18: Leave Color EffectPlay VideoIn this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to use the 'Leave Color' effect as well as a simple compositing technique to be able to focus on just the item needing to be shown without having to worry about similar colors in other parts of your shot. While the 'Leave Color' effect is powerful, it is also a simple approach which may or may not work for you depending on the footage you are working with. If you are not getting the results you want with the 'Leave Color' effect, then you may wish to use the secondary color correction techniques shown in previous tutorials to obtain a similar and slightly more controllable result.

Premiere Pro CS6 Techniques: 67 Color 20: Blend Modes 1Play VideoIn this tutorial, Andrew Devis starts by showing how to animate an effect from the 'generate' category of effects and then shows how to use 'blend modes' to blend a reasonably flat piece of footage with the animated effect below to give a little more life or interest to the shot.